not alzheimer's. while i hope that everything gets better in the future, it is depressing to note that these treatments are just out of reach and to feel sort of condemned to live in the present with so little options other than care and support. >> i think there are a lot of us in the room that are thrilled for the folks who are here like jim who are benefiting and that the same time understanding the lost that many of us have experienced. there is no going back on that. there were two questions discussed earlier when we met today. we came prepared -- i have noticed -- the first question was, what was that he wanted to share with the audience? the second question -- i will get to that in one minute. philippe, tell us about what it is you -- you had three items you wanted to mention today. what was it? >> at the first thing that gets made, that i provide care for a young man who is a young man in today's world. he was about 52 years old, now 57 when we diagnosed the onset of dementia. early dementia i

one thing to mention is alzheimer's itself. alzheimer's disease. we know it begins in the hip campus presenting with mild forgetfulness before it sweeps in other areas of the brain, other cortical areas causing a more profound cognitive impairment something we call dimension. it' dementia. it's targeting the same general area in the brain. so an important question is can we try to disassociate those two. one way one might imagine doing that is based on the observation that the neurons in the medial temporal lobe, the brain cells are not homogeneous, not all equivalent. you have different types of neurons organized into different parts of the medial temporal lobe. and it's because of that, because we assume that aging and alzheimer's are mechanically distant that they might target parts of the medial temporal lobe. let me illiterates descrai illu. this is an mri. the circle is the medial temporal lobe. thesare zmed in agesf the medial temporal lobe. these are smri or function magnetic resonance enginething scan. they not only give you cognitive info

. >> nobody has ever survived alzheimer's. they have been cured of cancer, heart disease but never survived alzheimer's so why do you want to even know you are getting this thing? and the reason there has been this big push to do this kind of research is that in order -- people think by the time you have alzheimer's it is kind of too late to help you, so many brain cells, you can't bring them back, there is nothing you can really do. so in order to make a difference you have to find people early, and test treatments on them. >> rose: fareed zakaria, pooley and kolata, next, funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose. >> rose: we continue this evening with an assessment of president obama and his administration and the challenges they face. last night we talked to former deputy of state richard armitage tonight we have fareed zakaria, he is a columnist and editor of newsweek international and hosts fareed zakar

. >>> unlocking the mystery of alzheimer's. what a new test can tell us and what it can't. > last straw, the flight attendant who had a meltdown and became an overnight hero. but that's not the end of the story. >>> and the rat pack like you've never seen them before. "nightly news" starts now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening, i'm ann curry in for brian williams. information is still coming in tonight about who was lost in last night's plane crash in alaska. today it was confirmed that former u.s. senator ted stevens was killed along with four others. but that former nasa administrator sean o'keefe and his son survived, though they are badly injured. the struggle for accurate information about this crash lasted throughout much of this day because it happened in such a remote area, more than 300 miles from anchorage, near a tiny town of dillingham. we have three reports, including one near the scene. but first, tom costello on what happened. tom? >> reporter: ann, good evening. this was a passing p

what you have in your packet is a very wonderful summary from the alzheimer's association about all of these services and where we are in the process. we fought and fought, and we got all of these services back into the budget, albeit with some cuts. we wanted to make sure they were restored. we understand the economics. we are all there, but we wanted to make sure that they were restored. why is this important? it is important because we have a base to work with, but once you repeal the funding, you may actually repeal the enabling legislation, so we needed to have these restored. so the budget subcommittees did restore these. right now, what is happening is there's a process called the big five. nothing mysterious about it, and they may actually go out to that smoking tent that the governor has -- i do not actually know -- but they are simply parties from both houses and the governor. there is of your legislators and the governor that our meeting. what you need to do is you need to call the governor. all of those fans that were up -- you need to call the governor and say, "we need to

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we need to demythologize the shame around to dementia and alzheimer's. -- around dementia. is a lot of stigma around it, and the care giver -- they are not wanting to come forth and say they have it, because there is such-imagery, and they feel really isolated. i want to say both as a social worker and a long distance caregiver for elderly parents, it is really important to note -- maybe i am plugging -- that the services are available. it is our intention to keep people living safely and independently in their homes. if you do have any inclination or suspicion that somebody is having a hard time, losing capacity, might need assistance with setting up services -- adult services and social workers are available to go out and work with those individuals and families to really connect people to services in the community with the intention, if at all possible, to keep them living in their homes. and there's a 24-hour hot line for adult protective services. [applause] >> working in a long term public facility has a social worker, one of the holes i see is caregiving at night. pe

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pecan how many of you have read -- about alzheimer's. how many of you have read about alzheimer's? do not read it. if you are a caregiver, read it in bits and pieces. the woman said to me, i got half way through and i was sobbing. i decided he could not have known what he was giving me. can you do something to help with that? that is what we are talking about. if we could wave a magic wand, who would we want to educate? the general public -- and know when to go to the doctor. diagnosed people having memory problems. give information to people having memory problems. to their care givers, their friends, professionals, nursing homes. the list is long, isn't it? professionals, physicians, psychologists, up police -- the police. then we identified nine key areas. i have a slide to go through this briefly. i will not going to the recommendations, but just to show you the following, risk reduction. how do you know what you should be doing? if you do not have alzheimer's or other dimension, what should you do to reduce your risk? if you have di

in alzheimer's, brain changes likely occur at least ten years before memory loss. proteins called amyloid and tau are thought to short circuit communication between nerve cells and destroy brain tissue. spinal fluid drawn from the back can reveal certain combinations of those proteins typical for the disease. >> alzheimer's is a slowly developing disease and it starts out when we're perfectly normal and gradually develops over a period of years and years of time. >> reporter: today's study in the "archives of neurology" not only found those telltale signs or biomarkers in the spinal fluid of 90% of patients with the disease, they also found them in 72% of those with mild cognitive impairment. and, importantly, in 36% of people who appeared normal. >> we have to go to very early patients who have just the beginnings of alzheimer's in their brains and those are the people we need a way to identify to test the treatments. and that's why these spinal fluid tests, i think, are going to be extremely important over the next few years. >> reporter: think of it this way: de

we are trying with services to serve people with alzheimer's and other dementias. we are trying to serve the caregiver's. we are trying to serve people who have very little money. people with moderate income. people who have some money at their disposal. we are looking at people in the beginning stages of dementia, and the middle stages, in the end stages. part of what we wanted to try and capture was how anybody can come into the system at any point. how do we make sure that we get them where they need to go? in your handout, you have a listing of things that i will not go through in detail of the vast areas of things that we really try to look at. we tried to look at care management. taking a look at not necessarily what we have this moment in time, but putting a framework on at our round, are we meeting the need currently? if we do not, where do we need to go? where are we right now? if we can have a community where people can maneuver through with them come in at various places, what does that look like? if we came together with an overall umbrella of looking a

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in alzheimer's disease, the nerve cremes wither and die. abnormal proteins aqume nate and form plaques and tangles. when they look to see how accurate the proteins were at predicting illness, they found 90% of those with the disease had the disease pattern in spinal fluid. one day, a cure for the 5 million americans suffering from alzheimer's. >> we now have a tool that allows us to identify the disease, years before dementia starts. and that's the stage of disease at which intervention should be effective. it's treating the alzheimer's disease process before there's irreversible damage to the brain. i think that's the key to bringing this epidemic of alzheimer's under control. >> reporter: it will still be a few years before the spinal fluid test is available in your doctor's office. for now, it's driving new research. i asked if we would see a cure or effective treatment in our lifetime. the answer i got, george -- absolutely. >> okay, well, that is hopeful news. rich, thank you. to find ten warning signs for alzheimer's, go to abcnews.co

my dad has dementia -- different from alzheimer's.e is fortunately in a great assisted living facility in san francisco. this was addressed earlier by one of the earlier panelists about treating the group versus treating the individual, and how when you focus on one you take away from the other. i wanted to comment on that. even in this facility which he is fortunate to be in, i find that the caregiver's, blast the, they are amazing, do not attend to him as an -- bless them, they are amazing, do not attend to him as an individual. his symptoms are different from other peoples. years ago, i worked for united cerebral palsy. active in my training to be a caregiver for that disease was the fact that most of us were actively trained regarding each individual's set of symptoms. it is exhausting? where is the money and the time? it was possible to be educated for each individual. i would suggest, if it is possible, to believe that day -- that they, there is active effort to find out about the individual and their particular needs. to make t

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in alzheimer's disease, this is is not-- it's not a condition that's apparent. we have to use indirect measures of the disease and that creates a lot of noirkz a lot of measurement difficulty. up until now, we have relied on memory tests and similar assessments, but they're not very accurate. memory fluctuates from day to day. it's not a very precise gage of disease progression or the impact of drug treatment. now, we have new, much more precise measures of disease that allow us to identify people at the very early stages, as we said, but also to much more precisely measure the impact of treatment. so i think that clinical trial methodology has advanced , and that's going to help us demonstrate effective treatments. >> woodruff: dr. paul aisen, we're going to leave it there. thank you very much for talking with us. >> thank you. >> lehrer: next, an encore report on a water crisis in the horn of africa. it's the work of our partnership with the pulitzer center on crisis reporting and national geographic. the story comes from ethiopia via special correspondent fre

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like most doctors researching alzheimer's disease, jerome goldstein uses tests but has been employingew technology that could have a draw matic impact on the way doctors treat and research the disease. >> this is a different perspective to test someone to ask what day it is and what week it is. who is the president. and questions like that. and it's a different issue to actually see what is happening the brain. >> to make that possible, a company developed a dye that binds to proteins, tangle switch known as plaques. now, using pet scans researchers are able to see those plaques building up in the brain. >> people here where you can see a lot of red, these people have alzheimer's disease. >> dr. winer is researcher at ucsf and director of the imaging initiative funded mull yi million dollar project to find a way to detect the disease. >> until now we've been unable to diagnose whether or not someone has alzheimer's disease unless there is an autopsy. >> he says a method of early diagnosis could be key to preventing this disease because it can take up to 20 years to develop. and until

by 2013, over 1.1 billion people will be suffering from alzheimer's and dimension. the numbers are staggering, and they are impacting disproportionately hispanic and asian populations, and we need to make sure that cultural competency is a big part of the narrative of that investment as well. so we initiated, i guess six months ago, a very complicated process. we funded a complicated process to really investigate and invest and identify best practices, identify resources, identify gaps in terms of our integrated system of care. next month, i am eager, very eager -- in august, i will finally receive this report, which i believe maybe the only report of its type that has been initiated. i'm rather mesmerized by this. we hope it is not just a blueprint for the city and county of san francisco. we hope it is something that can be shared across the state of california and again across the rest of this country. so that is what we are doing here. this is a city that prides itself on its investment in people's health and wellness. this is a city, for those of you that may n

it may have saved roy's life here he suffers from alzheimer's and wears it on his belt. wednesday he went on a walk and never came back. is wife joy called m finders, they tracked him, found him almost 2 miles away. they notified san jose police, they picked him up, they brought him home, roy was safe and sound at home 30 minutes after joy made the call. what a story, what a great gadget. this device can save a life. >> you read so many times things happen to people. be the one who's oneloved one this happened to. very happy it cost me $25 a month, that is just a dinner out, and that is certainly worth it. i hope i don't ever have to use it again, but feel a little more confident now that they will find him if that were to happen again. >> the mcq device cost around $200 then cost $25 a month for the service. in san jose gabe slate, kron 4 news. >> target and best buy are continuing to suffer follow to a group of minnesota. that's the candidate for governor was to gain same-sex marriage. our web producer kimberly shows us what the processes on youtube. >> consumer boycot

now researchers plan to see if they could help alzheimer's patients, which could be be. those bottled teas that you buy may have extremely low levels of anti-oxidants. researchers say you'd have to drink about 20 bottles to get the amount of anti-oxidants found in one cup of home brewed tea. they say people might be better off brewing their own at home. >>> a woman tried to swim the full 23 miles across the monterey bay over the weekend, but some jelly fish had a very different idea. about four hours into the swim, patti was repeatedly stung by jelly fish. if she had completed the swim, she could have become only the second person to do it. she swam without a wet suit. another swimmer plans to try to swim across the bay tomorrow. >> jelly fish, they're just painful. you get caught in a -- what are they, a flock, a swarm, a school, what are they? >> if you've ever been stung by jelly fish, it has been horrible. >> you had one? >> yes. and it feels like a burn and scraping at the same time and it's awful. >> it's not fun. we get high pressure building in. again, you saw th

doctors say they have found a way to predict who will get alzheimer's disease. is a spinal test the answer for an early warning? >>> from air rage to fast food fury. why this woman lost it when she couldn't get her chicken mcnuggets at mcdonald's. caught on tape at the drive-through. >>> no anger here at all. we are all calm. we're happy to see all of you this morning. happy to have elizabeth vargas back in for robin this morning. >> frustrated in america? >> so much and everybody is talking about this. ultimate take this job and shove it moment. this jetblue flight attendant gets in an argument with a passenger trying to remove his overhead luggage early. the passenger swears at him. the luggage bumps the attendant and he just loses it, unleashes a string of profanity over the intercom before taking a couple of beers from the galley, activating the emergency exit, and sliding down the chute with his carry-on. the flight attendant is in custody. the passenger is still pretty stunned and, elizabeth, i mean, there's a lot of sides. on the one hand should there be

spinal taps were able to detect 100% people with memory problems that developed alzheimer's in future years. >>> the friendly skies got nasty. long hours, screaming kids, angry passengers, usually a flight attendant can deal with it. but a jetblue flight attendant cracked under that pressure with a slip of the tongue. we have a look at ultimate t tarmac tantrum. >> reporter: he had a smirk on his face but said nothing to crews. though steven slater was all smiles earlier in the day, sources say he was anything but happy. it all happened when flight 1052 from pittsburgh to jfk was landing. a female passenger stood up to get her things from an overhead compartment while the plane was still taxiing, according to sources. as he approached the woman to tell her to sit down, one of her bags hit him in the head, leaving a mark. slater asked for an analogy. instead the woman swore to him. he then got on the p.a. system and said to the expletive expletive, it's been a good 28 years. >> they come in all shapes and sizes. >> people can be abusive to airline attendants. i just feel bad for the gu

. >>> there is a major development tonight in predicting alzheimer's disease. it is a spinal fluid test and researchers say it could be 100% accurate in identifying patients with memory loss who will go on to develop alzheimer's. the study published in the archives of neurology involve more than 300 patients in their 70s. their spinal fluid was analyzed for proteins that form the characteristic plaque in the brains of people with alzheimer's. >>> two breaking crime stories tonight. an escaped prison inmate accused of two murders while on the loose has been captured in the west. a suspected serial killer is still at large in the midwest. nbc's justice correspondent pete williams is covering both of these stories. he now joins us from washington. pete, good evening. >> reporter: ann, federal marshals launched a western manhunt fearing two inmates in arizona were on their way to yellowstone park. one was arrested today when a woman recognized him from news reports. federal marshals say tracy province was arrested early this morning in the small wyoming town of mee

does that mean i'll end up with alzheimer's or we don't know for sure?lly understand that yet. and a big focus in this disease in terms of prevention, diagnosis and treatment is obviously the last category, treating those patients. you want to get that ball in motion before someone is so impaired. and sometimes that involves planning, sometimes hopefully that will involve early intervention with medication, but, again, that is a huge segment of the population that we want to target and this is very important. >> in the meantime so many of us do cross words all the time now, do all these other kinds of things to try to keep our brains nimble. >> keep your brain active and as we say before, what's good for the heart is good for the brain. eat a healthy diet, exercise, know your family history. and you'll be hearing more and more about this it seems day to day. >> so many more people. all right. dr. ashton, thanks. >>> coming up next, levi johnston's quest to follow in sarah palin's foot steps. and hold political office. you're watching the early show on oi

as telecines had alzheimer's for six years. he still knows his name his wife's name his barber. his 6 ft. tall gray hair and brown eyes. travois from home today is a white and city suvs. >> well as a cold blustery day today. temperatures only in the '60s and '70s. warmest in fairfield at 75 degrees. livermore only in the '60s. sis' skis for san francisco (the wind is really whipping up. made ties between 30 and 40 mi. per hour. so breezy though between 10 and 20 mi. per hour. faugh all this unsettled weather caused by a storm system in the northern portion of the state. a very early season streak storm producing rain in the north. and if the system has been bringing in the cold temperatures. it will move out for tomorrow. things will begin to warm up, not so much for to moscow in cool air in place. monday tuesday wednesday the temperatures will begin to climb. by the end of next week we could be looking at temperatures well into the '90s. a luncheon know about more about that. >> still had a conservative pundit marches through washington on the anniversary of king's i have a dre

now the doctors hope that the test can pave the way to early preemptive treatments for alzheimer's. > okay. we have been talking about this story all morning. that jetblue flight attendant arrested after he lost his temper and stormed off a plane on the tarmac. which leads us to our question of the day: do you think the flight attendant's actions were justified? on facebook, rose says totally justified. at least he didn't use a gun to make his point. the hard els jobs i have had are dealing with customers who say they want what they want when they want. david says he completely cracked, nervous breakdown, i don't think what he did was correct. but i will say i see passengers disrespect flight crews often. respect the flight crew, they are there to keep us safe at 37,000 feet. >>> then chris says, absolutely not. if he had been polite and civilized this would not have happened. i'm not sure what's wrong with him but i hope jetblue fires him. probably a safe bet. >>> david from san mateo says, i agree with tracy. should have thrown the passenger down the slide along with parents who don

he suffers from alzheimer's and when for walking never came back.called the they tracked some they found to notify the police, for upon boris safe at home within 30 minutes after they first called. this gadget can save a life. you hear about how things happen of people, you don't want to be the one who's loved one had something to happen to them. i'm very happy italy cost $25 a month a dinner out. and it was worth it. i feel very confident that they can find him. if this were to happen again the device costs around $200, the $25 a month for service. in san francisco great games like kron4 news. welcome back five looks here above the fog area secure in san francisco is foggy here. the latest with the weekend for test. >> are temperatures today the masai yesterday, al been more fog. here's a beautiful shot with their montand to see below fog " coverage. if temperatures outside right now cool experiencing some fog and drizzle. the fog will push the coast by about noon. five to 10 degrees cooler than we were yesterday. current temperatures in the '50s t

his brother has alzheimer's disease and he lives in east the interesting thing he was uninterested orile his wife wasn't interested in changing diets but as his brother got better he started to make changes in his diet. he is becoming clear and cognitive. what is that the only thing that changed was his diet. >> seen changes in both brothers? >> yes. >> we know the brother was positive before which is the one connected to all comers disease we have an obesity epidemic in the diabetes epidemic we have a heart disease at epidemic. we have been manipulated food industry and people are eating poor food causing them to get the expression of dementia which we are now seeing at a 47% increase. it seems like one guy it does not fit all we hear about is low fat diets are best for general off what you're saying is not necessarily so. >> i think this is we are understanding this as we look get nutrition one diet is not for everybody the reason why it was looked at in the first place was for the the her progress of heart disease they found the gene use fat out of fire in very high level. so you p

there is a promising new test for diagnosing alzheimer's disease. the test involves sampling spinal fluid for certain proteins and can predict which patients with memory loss will eventually develop the disease. researchers tell abc news that while the tests adds to our underssehe disease it's not a breakthrough. our dr. richard besser has been going through that report and will give us analysis later today on "good morning america." >>> also, former vice president dick cheney is back home this morning after being released from a hospital in virginia. cheney had been recovering from heart surgery last month. the operation installed a pump that helps his failing heart work. >>> well, it is time now for sports. here's adnan virk. >> the best rivalry in baseball to most, the yankees and red sox. boston trying to close the deficit in the a.l. east. lester getting the call after the sox scored two early runs. mark teixeira got in the fourth. alex rodriguez. he went 6 1/3 shutout innings. then a drive to right center off the top of the wall for a double.

. >>> and a condition between alzheimer's disease. japanese researchers found people with abnormal blood sugar levels had an increased risk of developing the plax in the brain. this is what creates insulin resistance. by controls and preventing diabetes it may be possible to help lowering the soaring rate of alzheimer's disease. >>> more americans are expected to travel by car this labor day weekend but they will not be going far from home. aaa says 31 million americans will travel in their vehicle up 10% from last year. the average round trip is expected to be about 600 miles. the lower price of gas is considered a key factor. about 5% of people on labor day are expected to fly. travelers are expected to spend an average of $700 over the long weekend, about $50 more than last year. >>> it seems that air travelers are getting crank yeah when it comes to kids. 60% of them don't want to sit near babies or children. and they favor seating kids in families-only sections. nearly 20% of the thrflyers say they prefer the flights be child-fre

the -- now, the stroke is not the first step towards alzheimer's, is it? >> no, it is a totally different thing is that a universal opinion in your profession, or is it thought to be that the stroke is the first step in a continuum that marches on irresistibly to alzheimer's? >> you could have combinations 678 in fact, that's probably the most common thing. >> in your book, the longevity strategy, you argue against retirement. what do you say about it? >> well, in that book with dave mahoney, we talk about the fact that you have to stay alive and have to stay interested and focused and things like. that look at these people, these retirement communities, getting up -- how many games of golf you can play? you have to stay interested. >> you're not talking about maintaining the existing sauce of your lively looked right through age 10o you are talking about what? >> avocation. >> what is avocation? >> a serious interest in something, take up art, an interest in art when you're in your 30's or 40's. you have to start the avocation early. >> you are convinced

pharmaceutical company has stopped producing medicine for alzheimer's disease. that's a setback in finding a treatment. eli lilly said that the drug they were testing actually increased the symptoms and was linked to a higher rate of skin cancer. that crushes the theory that alzheimer's has caused about a buildup of blackplaque in the b >>> well, still ahead at 6:00, living large on the shores of lake tahoe, the bear on the tear and what a legend this bear has become. >>> eight verdict is in. details on the high profile trial of former illinois governor rod blagojevich. >>> teaming up, the new head work here in california connecting hundreds of physicians. >>> and a fast food giant's rare offer amid record unemployment. back in two. >>> health insurance and other benefits offered to part-time workers. damian true h damian trujillo is here where they will be offered. >> reporter: starting salary, roughly $10 per hour and now part time is working 20 hours per week qualify for health benefits. which is part of the reason why they are on a hiring. >> i heard that th

fox's foundation, alzheimer's association, they all say they're working on statements or point you to their past statements. the alzheimer's association, for example, say they're opposed to any kind of limitations on stem cell research. so the question is, if this money is cut off can you get enough private money to continue? and nobody knows. gwen: ok, we'll be seeing. thank you, everyone. we have to go for now but the conversation continues online. just go to pbs.org where you can check out our "washington week" webcast extra. you can read my weekly blog and you can keep up with what our reporters are covering every day. the pbs newshour is your place for daily developments, including live coverage of tuesday's presidential primetime oval office speech. then we'll join you around the table again next week on "washington week." good night. >> every thursday get a preview of our topics and panels with our "washington week" e-mail alert, available at "washington week" online at pbs.org. >> funding for "washington week" is provided by -- boeing, exxonmobil, e-harmony, the ethics and exc